The Moth: The Big Bang

Join the Moth for explosive tales of discovery, creation and chaos, where eruptions in the laboratory of mind or spirit (eureka!) yield fiery results.

The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling, and a recipient of a 2012 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions (MACEI). Through its ongoing programs, The Moth Mainstage,The Moth StorySLAMs, The Moth High School StorySLAMs, MothSHOP Community Education Program and MothSHOP Corporate, The Moth has presented more than three thousand stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The Moth podcast is downloaded more than 15 million times a year, and the Peabody Award-winning The Moth Radio Hour, produced by Jay Allison and presented by PRX, The Public Radio Exchange, airs weekly on radio stations nationwide.